MySQL is inviting everyone to join their Live Webinar for Asia Pacific this Thursday, October 22 2009 for the release of MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009.

Watch the first demonstration of the product, which includes the MySQL Enterprise Monitor with improved MySQL Query Analyzer, and learn about the new rules and support services. You can also ask questions and get answers from MySQL experts.

So here's the details for the MySQL webinar:

WHO: Ronen Baram, MySQL Sales Engineer ANZ, Sun Microsystems

WHAT: What's New in the MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release (AS/IN) web presentation.

WHEN: Thursday, October 22, 2009

           14:00 Singapore/Malaysia/Philippines

           13:00 Thailand/Vietnam/Western Indonesia Time

           11:30 India, Sri Lanka Time

           The presentation will be approximately 45 minutes long followed by Q&A.

WHERE: Simply access the web seminar from the comfort of your own office.

To register for this web presentation, please go to:

http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-436.html                    

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Download ANT( Another Neat Tool ) from the official site: The Apache Ant Project.

For Windows and OS/2:

• Assume that Ant is extracted in C:\ant\ 
• Open the command line and set up the environment.
• set ANT_HOME=c:\ant
• set JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk-1.5.0.05
• set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin

For Linux/Unix ( bash )

• Assume that Ant is extracted in /usr/local/ant
• Open the bash terminal and set up the environment
• export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant
• export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk-1.5.0.05
• export PATH=${PATH};${ANT_HOME}/bin

• Assume that Ant is extracted in /usr/local/ant
• Open the bash terminal and set up the environment
• setenv ANT_HOME /usr/local/ant
• setenv JAVA_HOME /usr/local/jdk-1.5.0.05
• set path=( $path $ANT_HOME/bin)